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mircea_popescu: yeah but it's a pretty mixed bag once he goes into discussion of it.
mircea_popescu: it's not that "bigger systems require changes" AT ALL. on the contrary : it's that bigger systems do not PERMIT changes some idiots think they are entitled to.
mircea_popescu: such as "in lowering the perceived barrier to entry, encourages idiots and degrades median code quality" ; "in encouraging writing over reading, it plays to software's weaknesses against its strengths" scl
mircea_popescu: moreover for an array of half-related, half-unrelated reasons.
mircea_popescu: it's true foss died ; for which reason it carries little water here. but the frustration is a) the inability of foss to maintain strong immutability in front of organised crime, be it usg or otherwise ; b) the part where it can't actually move is valid, but not exactly for the reason he describes.
mircea_popescu: han the ones people today think are usefully modified locally." << this, for instance, is oddly half-true/half-delusional.
mircea_popescu: "I think Free Software and Open Source addicts will get down from their current high and become tremendously frustrated when the obvious problem of having millions of pieces of source code available and they actually can't move in any direction because the ability to make modifications that they have so lauded in the past turn into a very serious problem when much bigger problems require modifications to much larger systems t
mircea_popescu: read in a charitable light, his point can perhaps be salvaged wrt lisp/unix.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; im putting this off to an exquisitely bad metaphor, with the cars.
mircea_popescu: did to understand what he "meant" through "redefining what open() means in the middle of the text"
mircea_popescu: see, this is kinda backwards. normally, one examines what subject says to understand what he did. not what subj
mircea_popescu: mkay then. the man's deeds and his words are not alligned.
mircea_popescu: this titanic "start from scratch" nonsense is not of interest
mircea_popescu: sanity in engineering includes confiscation of codebases. something he didn't do with mule.
mircea_popescu: naggum's solution to "bitcoin is broken" would be pointedly not to "take over source and discharge the delusional folks "releasing" "versions" in their own mind" ; but instead to "find another way". perhaps what, spam the forums ? to build consensus ?
mircea_popescu: "car goes through your house" requires "other way provider" to recognize car owner as boss.
mircea_popescu: his "car could go there some other way" requires car user to recognize "other way provider" as boss.
mircea_popescu: it is a problem BECAUSE I AM THE BOSS OF YOU ; NOT YOU THE BOSS OF ME.
mircea_popescu: "|I don't see why anyone would insist on a way to do things that does not solves the real problem, but rather solve an ancilliary problem that is a problem only because someone is very stubborn." << the political ineptidude of these people.
mircea_popescu: also need a proper sized jade piece, which is rarer the bigger it gets.
mircea_popescu: in another life /me had set of five jade spheres, hand carved. whole thing about titsized.
mircea_popescu: But the tricky bits here are these spheres within spheres, the Klein bottle tanks, the irrational gears
mircea_popescu: apparently not even folk - jordin kare is the propulsion guy neh ?
mircea_popescu: (you can, incidentally, obtain polygonal holes - if not necessarily square - with odd shaped bit moving on two different orbits)
mircea_popescu: so then there's the two and only two available strategies. the psychopath (the more i lose, the more i send, fuck you) ; and the woman (the more i lose, the less i send, may my children cover the earth).
mircea_popescu: there's a reason we have domestic sheep but not domestic mice
mircea_popescu: that, incidentally, is a good entry into "female, necessary, biological cowardice". what do you do confronted with losses ? wind down ? or pip up ?
mircea_popescu: they cut down on losses ; instead of leaning into on losses.
mircea_popescu: in the end, material shortages decide a lot more than people like to think.
mircea_popescu: there's an overarching consensus that the germans would have broken britain had they not been cowards and kept up the london bombin.
mircea_popescu: romanian train (no need to discuss alloy, there were like 4) ; egyptian car (they'll use the best they can) ; etc. many possible contexts.
mircea_popescu: the alternative to this is strictly "the lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft computador from the bosom of the lake"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will note that there exists no life of the spirit outside of exactly this "i will pick high level abstracrtion and proceed to allign realia to it"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the incomprehensible mists were him, not you. who the hell knows what's in the box of a guy who does such contradictory things as alf pointed out. i wouldn't risk much on the theory we share any mythology, and it's not even directly evident gabriel_laddel actually lives meaningfully related to the human condition.
mircea_popescu: phf this "you already know all knowledge, just, you know, wash" is ridiculous enough, but nowhere the ridiculousness is in starker evidence than in the harem. "so i washed, can i bellydance yet ?" "no, wash more."
mircea_popescu: well, it certainly is much more effective when stuck with the apparent incomprehensible mysts, as seen here.
mircea_popescu: a point platon never quite groked, hence his terrible political failures.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, socrates used questions specifically for that fundamental reason - that understanding may only happen on the basis of what the understander contains, and naught else.
mircea_popescu: phf but your argument fundamentally is "there's no need for communication because the essence of all things is in all things", which is what that is.
mircea_popescu: phf the fundamental problem here is that you misuse words. "to resolve on the basis of" requires a basis, which is to say, something shared. whether right or wrong - i can resolve quantum physics disputes on the basis of coran suras if need be. yet your thing is "this is cool so should be basis". how cool it is has no bearing on how shared it is, you know ?
mircea_popescu: heh not how irl works, because complex interaction in crystalline lattice causes all sorts of strange peribehaviours.
mircea_popescu: that's part of the whole "o look, latinas in miami" lulz. if you're going to decide to go brunette, there's a shitload better options than fucking south america, and they come from the golden crescent.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the subtext there is "you're poor". i've known irani chicks, not exhibited such problems. perhaps their daddy being petrified of me a large factor.
mircea_popescu: women are born cowards for very good, fundamerntal biologic reasons.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel how's an uneducatable intelligent woman like ?!
mircea_popescu: perhaps it's just the girls he cavorts with. needy adolescent can be exhausting.
mircea_popescu: consider that there's more to your tooling than just the software and fix things in priority order.
mircea_popescu: trinque> you'll actually get more useful work done if you take time to fix your life. << i support the notion. life's not a sprint but a marathon, and attempting to build anything serious on the very rotten shifty bases here described is not unlike trying to do clim in windows 95.
mircea_popescu: Apr 16 03:51:01 * deedbot removes voice from gabriel_laddel Apr 16 03:52:58 * deedbot gives voice to gabriel_laddel << ah yes.
mircea_popescu: "they sure wouldn't have built this very versatile car, which they talk about a lot more than where they have used it and for what" << now this is fo sho valid criticism of the whole demographic.
mircea_popescu: well then that kinda work should eat through your 300 overdraft in a short time.